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Article #3559group id not restored
From: Herbert Fruechtl
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:34
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:34
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The problem: After viewing mail with elm the error message 'Problems restoring permissions of folder /usr/spool/mail/username!' occurs. Afterwards the group id of this file is set to the group of the user instead of 'mail'. Incoming mail is no longer delivered. The problem can only be removed by 'su root' and 'chgrp'. Details of installation: I have installed elm 2.4 on a network of IBM RS/6000 workstations. Having started with PL3 I applied all patches up to PL20. I tried it using my own id and root, answering the 'setgid' question in Configure with yes and no: no difference! What's wrong? Another strange thing (no problem as such, but maybe connected with the error above): Although I enter a different directory during 'Configure' the binaries are created in the elm/bin directory. Afterwards the directory I enter is stored in 'config.sh'. Is it nevertheless ignored? Elm is the most comfortable mailer I know, and I really would like to install it on our system. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Herbert
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!fauern!uni-erlangen.de!pctc.chemie.uni-erlangen.de!fruechtl From: fruechtl@pctc.chemie.uni-erlangen.de (Herbert Fruechtl) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: group id not restored Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:34:00 GMT Organization: Physikalische Chemie, Uni Erlangen Distribution: world Message-ID: <1k6h28EINNe7n@uni-erlangen.de> Reply-To: fruechtl@pctc.chemie.uni-erlangen.de (Herbert Fruechtl) NNTP-Posting-Host: pctc.chemie.uni-erlangen.de Lines: 24